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WASHING MACHINE.

Patented MayY 9, 1882.

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WASHING MACHINE.

No. 257,551. l Patented May 9,1882.

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, UNITED ASTATES PATENT OFFICE'.

ANTHONY W. BURKE, OF STAYNER, ONTARIO, CANADA.

WASHING-MACHINE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,551, dated May 9, 1882,. Application lled August 29, 1SS1. (No model.) Patented in Canada May 19, 1381.

Io all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANTHONY WESTON BURKE,ot` the village of Stayner, in the county of Simcoe, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to produce a cheaply-constructed, but. at the same time et'- fective, washing-machine; and the invention consists in the construction, operation, and combination of the various parts, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figures l and 2 represent perspective. views of my improved washingmachine. Fig.3 is asectionalelevation of the washing-machine complete.

In the drawings like letters indicate correspondingparts in each figure.

A is a water-tight box or chamber, supported bysuitable legs, B. The bottom of the box A is composed of a zinc sheet supporting laterally-located V-shaped slats C, forming a corrugated bottom, as shown. The center ot' the bottom is provided with a flattened sur face, D, projecting above the surface of the corrugation formed by the Vishaped slats, for the purpose of causing the clothes to turn over when acted upon by the convex rubber.

At either end of the box A, located near theopen top, I place downwardprojecting dash -boards E, running parallel with the V'- shaped slats (l, but; separated therefrom by aljattened slanting' surface, E.

On either side ot' the box A, and centrally 'located therein, will be noticed verticallygrooved metallic guides F, extending from the top of the box to a convenient point near -its center. These 'guides are formed to receive the pivoted -pins G, and are provided with grooved wooden caps H, extending above the top of the box and forming a. continua-tion of the metallic guides to which it is attached. The convex rubber to which the pivot-pins G are attached is composed of a. series of grooved V-shaped slats, I, having` beveled edges and running transversely with the box at equal distances apart, being` attached at either end to the plates J, forming the ends of the rubber, and to which the pivot-pins Gr are secured.

It will be noticed that the top Vot' the rubber is provided with transverse slats arranged at equal distances apart and secured to the end plates, thereby inclosing the rubber, while permitting the free ingress andegress of the water, and preventing` the clothes from falling` within the rubber. The handle J is shaped as shown, and is secured within the rubber by a weighted block, K. A staple, j, is inserted in the handle J at a short distance from the top of the rubber. This staple is placed in position for the purpose. of holding the rubber in the position in which it'- is shown in Fig. 2.- This staple holds it. in the desired position without in any way njuringthe end ot' the box.

rlo one end of the box I secure a wringer, L, and-a tray, 1t, so that the clothes, after being washed,can be passed through the wringer and fall upon the tray.

I may ment-ion here that the particular peculiaritt,r in the grooved V-shaped slats I consists in beveling their edges to form projecting angles, which not only assists in the washing, but prevents the edges wearing away.

'What I claim as my invention is- In a washing-machine in which a convex rubber is pivotedwithin an open chamber having a concavcd corrugated bottom, the combination ot' dashboards E, located at each end o f the chamber, and inclined boards E', separating the dash-boards from the corrugations, and having` their upper surfaces extending from the lower edges of the end corrugations to the under rear edges of the dash-boards E, substantially as and for-the purpose specified.

A. W. BURKE. Witnesses:

C. W. BALDWIN, H. H. WARREN. 

